![]() ![]() Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, Calif., purchased three at auction to add to the four the museum already owned. But they’ve become collector’s items in the years since, and in May 2020 the Charles M. He drew seven spec strips and presumably pitched them to “Peanuts” distributor United Feature Syndicate, which presumably turned them down. Called “Hagemeyer” and drawn sometime in the mid-1950s - just as “Peanuts” was starting to take off - it may have been intended as a way for Schulz to break out of the sandbox and show he was capable of (literally) bigger things. Then there’s the comic strip by “Peanuts” legend Charles Schulz that was set in a workplace peopled by actual grown-ups. Salvador Dali wrote a 1937 script for the Marx Brothers called “ Giraffes on Horseback Salads”: MGM passed, although Harpo liked it. Brian Wilson worked on “ Smile” from 1966 through 1967 until the sessions drove him to a nervous breakdown the album was never completed, although five CDs of tapes were released in 2011. Stanley Kubrick spent decades planning a mammoth Napoleon biopic that ultimately didn’t get made. The history of pop culture is full of almost-weres and never-was-es. ![]()
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